Word: acted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many words about "American lives and property", which have all the carmarks of hedging." But, the chief executive cannot very well answer the arguments of professors of history, economics, and international law in the same way. If enough attention is paid to their opinions, he may be forced to act...
...arbitrate in Nicaragua and Mexico. Very little that resembles a definite action has been taken, Perhaps the idea is that the baseball scandal or the idea is that the baseball scandal or a divorce case may draw attention from the Central American situation, and leave the government free to act us it sees fit. But in the meantime resentment is brewing in nearly every country to the south of us, even as far away from the scene of action as Argentine and Brazil; and in Europe statesmen are amused at the rather amateur imperialism of the country which fought...
...Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson. He had intelligence, sensitiveness and a rare, nervous charm. He duplicated his success in London. He supported Mme. Simone in The Return From Jerusalem. At 28 he turned manager and introduced the plays of George Bernard Shaw to the U. S. He acted in Candida, Arms and the Man, The Man of Destiny. His work was not great art. It was very interesting. Playwright Shaw seemed then an outrageous iconoclast, Actor Daly, his mouthpiece, a daring pioneer. When Mr. Shaw became a vogue, Arnold Daly lost some of his importance, as the introducer...
Petticoat government seems to be reaching international proportions. The case of Sir Eric Drummond, permanent secretary of the League of Nations, versus several million ladies illustrates the peaks to which it aspires It seems that Sir Eric., temporarily blind to the perilous consequences of the act, casually dismissed a librarian one morning whose contract had expired. That the sex of the official was feminine does not seem to have had nearly so much weight with the Secretary as with a whole hornet's nest of women's organizations. To them the deed was no less than a defiance...
...ready for the great moment. Outwardly calm but inwardly trembling with the significance of the act the moneyed jester lifts the receiver from the hook...